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Latitude: 51.5004 / 51°30'1"N
Longitude: -0.1282 / 0°7'41"W
OS Eastings: 530022
OS Northings: 179601
OS Grid: TQ300796
Mapcode National: GBR HJ.DB
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.QKL4
Plus Code: 9C3XGV2C+5P
Entry Name: Middlesex Guildhall
Listing Date: 5 February 1970
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1226369
English Heritage Legacy ID: 423608
ID on this website: 101226369
Location: Westminster, London, SW1P
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Matthew Westminster
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure Art Nouveau Government building Building of public administration Art Nouveau architecture
TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT SQUARE, SW1
92/49 (west side)
5.2.70 Middlesex Guildhall
G.V. II*
County Guildhall. 1906-13 by J G S Gibson with Skipwith and Gordon, sculpture
by H C Fehr. Portland stone (load bearing with internal steel frame), slate
roofs. Very accomplished, boldly massed, Free Style late Gothic with Flemish-
Burgundian references and more immediately influenced by Henry Wilson and Giles
Scott in the concentration of carved ornament balanced by bare wall plane. Free
standing block with symmetrical main elevations and imposing tower of elongated
section. 3 storeys, basement and dormered attic storey with steep hipped roof
behind. 9 bays wide. Entrance in centrepiece with segmental arched deep set
portal and great segmental arched window above framed by canted bay-turrets.
Behind rises the massive tower with large segmental arched windows to sides
with flamboyant ornament, piercedwork parapet and corner turrets. Stone
mullioned-transomed windows to flanking ranges and returns. Drip string across
ground floor stepped over window heads. Sharply profiled cornice. The attic
storey has blind panel tracery linking enriched flamboyant gabled dormers. The
south return has main central portion advanced with 3 semicircular arched
ground floor windows and stone piercedwork balcony to 1st floor. Fine
sculptured details with deep, figured, relief frieze above and to the sides of
the entrance extending over canted bay-towers; statues under canopies, finials
etc. Lofty stone chimney stacks with attached"torse"shafts. Good Free Gothic
area railings. In the basement the C17 gateway to Tothill Fields Prison.
Listing NGR: TQ3002279601
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